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an old American method that has provided successful for other groups. That method is politics, which for this group of newly enfranchised people, is neither the art of compromise nor the art of the possible, but the art of seeing who gets how much of what from whom.

It is interesting to note that while we face the end of a war fought, so we are told, to secure free elections for the South Vietnamese, we find thsoe same free elections so unsatisfying at home.

But the newly enfranchised voters of the Southeast cannot afford to ignroe any of the rhetoric about democracy and freedom; they realize if they are to have any of it, it will be by their own devices, and not through promises made in Washington or high sounding speeches on the campus, or through slavish devotion to any political party, or by abandoning one party in favor of another that doesn't exist.

They enter into politics without believing that the vote alone can free a people but believing sincerely that the process of